There already is a system for doing competions in the head area of the survival score page, so it would be easy to set up.

We do want to run a competition in the future, and there's loads of things we could offer: mousepads and so on. The question is: how would we go about promoting the idea? Ideally we want quite a few people to be involved - it would probably run off survival demo mode, so there would be no obstruction of having to buy the game if you hadn't already. In theory this means you could get a lot of people involved if you had a way of letting them know about it.

For an online game developer, I think we have pretty good traffic, but even so, it's not as much as any of the big name mainstream game companies. Ideally you'd want to attract a lot of involvement in the competition, so how do you spread the word?

On a similar note: I was hoping some of the board members might be up for 'duelling', i.e: challenging each other as to who can get the best score that month.

Ok! but to make it actually challenging (because I suck at survival )
I'll make the challenge: 'Beat The Moonpod Team'! since Poo Bear is probably the best at it (he's the oldest though, and his reflexes are going, so you still have a good chance )

If I went running on SubSpace screaming you can win prizes by competiting for free on a space game I do believe that the hoard will come trompin'n'stompin' by.

That would be cool! It would be nice to get a few people from different forums and gaming backgrounds involved. I'm not sure if we'll have chance to organise anything before next year though, but when we do, I'll make sure there's a lot of advance warning.

PS: are you normally 'tractor' on the score table? I just noticed that r000000b doesn't show up when you hit 'Show all', so I assumed it was because the tractor score was better (second best of all time!!!)

It'd be cool if we had a way of recording the game session - I'd love to be able to play these back

Yep, normally tractor but I thought I would change to r000000b for consistency with here.

The 5087 game was amazing, the arachnid werenít dropping many gems so the game remained fast and quite clear, and mine layer after mine layer kept on constantly warping in.

Is there a maximum number of normal ship groups allowed at once? It seems that sometimes if there are lone survivors more enemies wont warp in. Anyhow this time I had no problem mowing down whole groups of arachnid, with no survivors, this probably helped to keep the minelayers coming. I killed enough to upgrade to the first devastator before the game levelled! This was quite a surprise, from there on it was nova-bomb-tastic, easily collecting more than enough gems to fund the nova bombs, and the miners take seconds with the devastator.

You donít even have to see the enemy to kill them, if you speed towards them, drop the nova bombs before you see them turn and head off to the next group, the nova bombs will carry on and explode in the middle of the pack killing them all while you are on you way to the next lot.

I havenít managed to get the devastator before level again because I donít get enough mine layers early on